India, Sept. 28 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Indian Railways will soon achieve 100% electrification of its network, a level he said only Sweden has achieved on a much smaller railway system, as he flagged off the country's first LNG-powered train at Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad and inaugurated railway development works worth Rs.1,472 crore. Shah said railway electrification in India stood at only 30% before Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office. "Electrification covered just 75km in an entire year in 2010-11, whereas 7,188km were electrified in a single year in 2023-24. Today, 99.6% of the railway network is electrified and we will soon complete the remaining 0.4%," he said. "Sweden is the only country in the world to have achieved 100% railway electrification, but the total length of railway lines in Sweden is nearly ten times less than that of India." htc...